Toy railway line



Oef. 27 1925 E. WHITELEY TOY RAILWAY LINE Filed Feb. 28l 1924 YPatented Oct.' 27, 1925.

UNITED STATE ERNEST WHITELEY, oF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, AssIGNoR To BARRINGEB, WALLIS AND MANNERS LIMITED, 0F MANSFIELD, ENGLAND.

' 'roY RAILWAY LINE.

Application led February 28, 19.24.` Serial No. 695,701.

To all whom` t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ERNEST VVHiTELEY, a subject of the King of England, residing at Kinreen, Allerton Drive, Mossley Hill,

Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Toy Rail? way Lines, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to toy railway lines, or the like.

A permanent way or base portion, sleepers, and upstanding rails of aline section or component are formed out of or from a single piece of sheet ymetal. The sides of said base are bent to form walls or flanges which may be outwardly inclined somewhat and the lower edges whereof may be inturned or beaded: thus the line is raised from a table, floor, or other support. Said sleepers are formed by raised transverse portions of the base arranged at spaced intervals, and the rails are produced by parallel channel or f1 lengths extending longitudinally of the base.

As means for detachably connecting together adjacent line sections or components, a metal pin or spindle may be provided at each end of each section, a part of each pin being secured-without the aid of solder, or the like-within an endv of a rail, the outer or free portionof a pin being adapted to slidably engage with a friction-tight fit in the pin-less end of'a rail of the next adjacent line section.

To secure a pin in part of the end of a rail there may be provided channel or connector pieces of f1 or other similar contouradapted in part to enter a rail,'and which are provided with lateral wings or tongues arranged to pass through slots `formed for their reception in the base and to be bent into locking' Contact therewith; an arm formed at an end of a pin passed through an opening in a connector piece from the inside of the rail, said pin being thus firmly and positively anchored in position. j

Alternatively, to secure a pin Y) when partially inserted in the end of a rail c, an adjacent portion of the metal of the latter may be appropriately out, as at Z1 to form a tongue or tongues Z which is or are squeezed or forced inwardly to clinch the pin f in position, or such pinclinching may be effected without the severing of the rail metal; or, a portion or portions of the base adjacent to the rail maybe lso cut that a tongue piece or 'tongue pieces is or are created, which tongue or tongues is or are adapted to be forced around the nearby portion of the pin. The fastening of a pin may be effected at intervals of its length,if de- The line is preferably constructed of sheet metal.

In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings there are illustrated, by way of examples only, two modes of carrying my invention into effect.

Fig. l is a plan view of two line sections or components secured together, and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of said line sections detached.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, taken as on line X-X Fig. l, and drawn to an enlarged scale; and Fig. 4 is an end view of a line section also drawn to an enlarged scale.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 6 a transverse section of a part of a line in which a modified mode of securing the connectingpins is adopted.

j In the several views likev characters ofv reference denote like or equivalent parts wherever they occur.

Referring now to said drawings, but first more particularly to Figs. 1 to 4, A generally designates a line section or component which comprises a base portion a, sleepers b, upstanding I1 rails c, and outwardly inclined sidewalls d the lower edges whereof being inturned at e.' said line is formed out of a single piece of sheet metal by suitable pressure tools.

At each end of each section there is secured a pin or spindle f, f1 which is maintained in position by means of a sheet metal connector piece g whereon are created in the stamping process of manufacture lateral tongues h which are passed through slots j in the base a and are bent outwardly into locking position; the arm f1 of the pin f, f1 passes through a hole k provided in the connector piece g and is thus positively engaged therewith.

In attaching a pin f, f1 to a rail section, a connector piece g is taken and the arm f1 of the pin is inserted through thevaperture ,7c in same, and then theconnector piece C/ with pin f, f1 is entered into the rail andy secured by means of said lateral tongues L. .Vhen two sections A, A of the line are brought together the outer pin portion f of one section enters with a sliding friction lit the adjacent end of the aligned rail of the other section.

ln the modification illust-rated in Figs. 5 and 6, cut tongue-like portions l, Z1 of the metal of the rail adjacent to the entered portion of a pin f are squeezed or forced inwardly to clinch the pin in the rail.

What I claim as iny invention and desire to secure by Lettersl Patent is l. In a toy railway section having a slotted base portion, channel rails, a channel connector piece provided with lateral tongues which are lentered through slots in the base portion of the' section and bent into locking Contact therewith, said connector piece having an aperture and a pin haring an arin which passes through the aperture in Said connector piece.

2. A toy railway section as claimed in claim l, adapted to be connected to an adjacent rail section and further characterized by the connecting pin being secured when partially inserted in a rail by the aid or" a tongue formed out of the metal Vof the rail section adjacent to the entered portion of the pin, and which tongue is forced inward to clinch the pin in position.

Signed at Liverpool,` in the county of Lancaster, England, this 13th day of February, 1924..

ERNEST VHITELEY. 

